Sunday · March 9, 2003(Julian: Feb 24)
Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
Major Feast Dairy
Fasting
Fast
Dairy Allowed (Cheesefare Week)
You may eat
Dairy, eggs, fish, wine, oil, vegetables — but no meat.
To avoid
Meat.
Feasts of the Day
- Clean Monday · Great Lent beginsMajor feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste
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Feasts of the Day
- Clean Monday · Great Lent beginsMajor feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
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Meatfare Sunday · Sunday of the Last Judgement
2
Cheesefare Week begins
3
Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus
4
St. Gerasimus of the Jordan
5
Martyr Conon of Isauria
6
The 42 Martyrs of Ammorion
7
Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Bas
8
Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)
9
Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
10
Martyr Codratus of Corinth a
11
St. Sophronius, Patriarch of
12
St. Theophanes the Confessor
13
Translation of the relics of
14
St. Benedict of Nursia
15
Martyr Agapius and those wit
16
Sunday of Orthodoxy (Triumph of Orthodoxy)
17
St. Alexis, Man of God
18
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
19
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Dari
20
Holy Fathers slain at the Mo
21
St. James the Confessor, Bis
22
Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra
23
Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
24
Forefeast of the Annunciatio
25
Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos
26
Synaxis of the Archangel Gab
27
Matrona of Thessalonica
28
St. Hilarion the New
29
Hieromartyrs Mark of Arethus
30
Sunday of the Holy Cross (Adoration of the Cross)
31
Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop
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Strict fast
no oil/wine/fish
Wine & oil
no fish
Fish allowed
+ wine & oil
Dairy week
no meat
Fast free
all foods
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